Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190125
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190125
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter (Armenian Church), Cranley Gardens SW7
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26597 78296
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2012
TQ 2678 SE
55/42
CRANLEY GARDENS SW7
Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
GV
II*
Church. 1866-67, designed and built by the office of C.J Freake, with additions by W.D Caröe and others, principally of 1907-09 and 1922-23. Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Decorated Gothic style.
Tower in north-west corner, with three-stage broach steeple. Vestries and hall on north side behind vicarage, by Caröe, 1907-09. Interior is cruciform with north and south aisles and transepts, apsidal east end. Four-bay nave arcade to crossing arch with clerestorey having alternate pairs of quatrefoil-headed and trefoil-headed lights; triple arches flanking transepts, and chancel arch to sanctuary. Nave walls originally polychrome brick, now whitewashed; west gallery by Caröe, 1909. Choir (under crossing) and sanctuary altered and embellished by Caröe and Passmore, 1922-23, with dormer lights, and reredos, sedilia, and canopy work richly carved by Nathaniel Hitch. Organ case on south side and gallery in north transept by Caröe. Morning chapel off north transept by Caröe, 1907-09, with lierne vault and carved figures by Hitch and Harold Whitaker, and Cosmati-style floor. Oak pulpit byJ S Alder, 1902. Stained glass by many hands, notably clerestorey windows by Mary Lowndes, 1904-06. St Peter's was built by C.J Freake as an estate church for his building developments on the Smith's Charity Estate, complementing his previous St Paul's, Onslow Square (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ2659778296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203727
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Southern Kensington: Volume 41, (1983), 114-17
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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